Chocolate Zucchini Brownies – gluten-free and fructose friendly

Here are the brownies I promised you if they worked out. And they worked out with bells on. They were rich, moist and had these enormous lumps of chocolate in them. That was because I didn’t cut up the chocolate very small. My friend’s teenage son said they were the best brownies he had ever eaten but wanted to know what the green bits were in them. I guess I could have peeled the zucchini so no trace of them remained. He appeared to accept the vegetable content of the brownies with nonchalance.
I have created my own gluten-free flour mixture to make my life easier. I make it up and keep it in a large Tupperware container so it is ready when the baking bug bites me. If you wish to make any of these or my future baking recipes, it would pay to make up this mix as well.
This is the mix:
2 cups brown rice – Purchase here
3 cups white rice – Purchase here
1 cup sorghum flour – Purchase here
2 cups potato starch – Purchase here
1 cup tapioca flour – Purchase here
5 tsp xanthan gum – Purchase here

And now the recipe.

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I like your gluten-free flour mix! A good mix of protein and starches for binding. I read somewhere that a good gluten free flour mix is about 40/60 protein and starch mix. Can I also replace xanthan gum with guar gum?

Anyway, I will definitely be trying out your brownies – minus “most” of the guilt. Deeeee-licious!

We often use zucchini in breads, but I don’t think we’ve ever used it in brownies (I know I haven’t, though possibly my wife has — though I don’t think so). Great idea! And I love finding chunks of chocolate in anything! Great pictures, great recipe — thanks.

I am Suzanne Perazzini, the author of two low Fodmap cookbooks, Low Fodmap Menus and Low Fodmap Snacks, and the creator of the Inspired Life Low Fodmap Coaching Program as well as the Combat Your IBS Symptoms course. I live in New Zealand in a house overlooking the Pacific Ocean with my husband and son. Since discovering the low FODMAP diet, my irritable bowel syndrome issues, which I have suffered from all my life, have all but disappeared and my life has been transformed. My blog focuses on the low FODMAP diet and features videos, recipes and articles on irritable bowel syndrome. My mission in life is to help those who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome to implement the low Fodmap diet. Read More…